Subject: Re: is mozilla very slow on alpha, or is mozilla-gtk2 slow everywhere?
To: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/10/2004 17:45:39
[ On Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 18:16:49 (-0500), kpneal@pobox.com wrote: ]
> Subject: Re:   is mozilla very slow on alpha, or is mozilla-gtk2 slow everywhere?
>
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:41:14PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > So, I take it pulling in the ld.elf_so fixes to the netbsd-1-6 branch
> > for Alpha wasn't too difficult.  Maybe I'll give that a shot tonight and
> > see what happens....
> 
> I may have taken the lazy route. I think I just did a full build
> of -current and then copied ld.elf_so over to my 1.6 boxes. There were
> no -current dependencies.

Well that wouldn't do me very much good because I have to be able to
rebuild from source and re-install on occasion....

I did manage to get the ld.elf_so sources from -current to compile on
1.6.x, but it won't run -- it dumps core, but of course in such a way
that GDB is useless (at least on the alpha).  I may have missed updating
some header in src/include (I only updated dlfcn.h).

BTW, the error spewed by a dynamic-linked binary when there's no
ld.elf_so program to run is not very kind to an xterm.  Here's an
example of it, after filtering through "od -c":

0000000  177   E   L   F 002 001 001 002   :       n   o   t       f   o
0000020    u   n   d  \n 220 001 240 035   :       n   o   t       f   o
0000040    u   n   d  \n 001   @   :       n   o   t       f   o   u   n
0000060    d  \n 220 001   :       n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n
0000100  001 005   :       n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n 001   h
0000120  270   h 270 001 001 007   h 270   h 270 001   :       n   o   t
0000140        f   o   u   n   d  \n 001 001 007   h 270   h 270 001   :
0000160        n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n   h 270   h 270 001
0000200    :       n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n 001   h 270 001
0000220    :       n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n 001 330   :    
0000240    n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n 330   :       n   o   t
0000260        f   o   u   n   d  \n 

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